MisusePHIIdentity (basic)Government IDMediumContained

St. Joseph Medical Center Polson

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Mar 1, 2022

Filed

Apr 14, 2022

To disclose

6 weeks

Affected

1state residents only

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for St. Joseph Medical Center Polson →

St. Joseph Medical Center Polson, a subsidiary of Providence Health & Services, notified Montana residents that on December 9, 2021, a caregiver accessed a patient's medical record in violation of policy. The incident was discovered on March 1, 2022. Data accessed included PHI, name, DOB, address, and partial SSN.

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Incident timeline

undetected · 82 days

discovery → filing · 6 weeks / 44 days

Dec 9, 2021

Begins

Mar 1, 2022

Discovered

Apr 14, 2022

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1 affectedView incident

Name: Providence Health & Services
norm: providence health

Name: St. Joseph Medical Center Polson
norm: st joseph medical center polson

Discovered: Mar 1, 2022
Breach occurred: Dec 9, 2021
Undetected for: 82 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 28, 2022
Affected individuals: 1state-resident count only
Data types: PHIIdentity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Insider
MITRE ATT&CK: T1530 Data from Cloud Storage Object
Threat actor: Internal
Initial access: insider_action

During the incident: Taken appropriate corrective action in accordance with our policies
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 6 weeks(44 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://dojmt.gov/wp-content/uploads/St.-Joseph-Medical-Center-Polson-Consumer-Notification-Letter-1.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 14, 2022
Raw hash: b837f8b9141be233ab46d997497dbfd4f30ee90a15db29c0e9738b2a66a3742e

Reporting entityProvidence Health & Services

Victim entitySt. Joseph Medical Center Polson

Incidentdiscovered Mar 1, 2022

Stated responseTaken appropriate corrective action in accordance with our policies

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancedojmt.gov